Emergency Medicine: Open Access
Open Access

Department of Applied Medical Sciences, Health Sciences College, Public Authority of Applied Education and training, Kuwait

Publications

• Research Article   
  General Practitioner Pre-Hospital Resuscitation Contribution to out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival; A Retrospective Study
  Author(s): Dalal Al Hasan* and Richard Brightwell
  
  Background: Out of hospital cardiac arrest survival remains low in most countries. No previous studies examined general practitioner (GP) pre-hospital resuscitation contribution to OHCA survival in the Middle East region. This study describes GP prehospital resuscitation and investigates its contribution to out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival in pilot regions of Kuwait. Method: A retrospective observational study using data from Emergency Medical Services (EMS) archived registry in Kuwait to describe GP prehospital resuscitation attempts in pilot regions of Kuwait (n=601) over 10 months period (21 February-31 December 2017) from Hawali and Al Farwanya provinces. We then compared OHCA demographics, resuscitation and outcomes during GP presence to those arrests from the community. Primary outcomes: survival to 30 days. Secondary out.. View More»
  

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